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Welcome to the Department of Statistics

Founded in 1997, the Department of Statistics at the University of Pittsburgh has grown from a handful of faculty into a thriving, nationally recognized community. We lead cutting-edge research in statistics, data science, and real-world applications—including machine learning, data privacy, social networks, clinical trials, psychiatry, computational biology, and neuroscience. Today, our department is a campus hub for statistics and data science research and education.

News

Siapoutis Is a Winner of Penn State Cheat-A-Thon

Nikolas Siapoutis announced as one of Penn State’s Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence (CSRAI) winners of their first-ever “Cheat-a-thon.”

Congratulations to Our New PhD Recipients- Jinwoo Cho, Zi Wang, and Fan Yang

Jinwoo ChoDynamic Prediction for Survival Outcomes and Network Assisted Localized Functional Principal Component Analysis

Assistant Professor Chris McKennan Awarded for Excellence in Graduate Mentoring

Please join us in congratulating Department of Statistics Assistant Professor Chris McKennan on being awarded the 2025 DSAS Award for Excellence in Graduate Mentoring for junior faculty.